Word: pallid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Nothing; none; at no one; these glossy apparitions are as hollow as soap bubbles. The photographer has frozen moments that never were ? yet they tease us because their reality is beyond question, while our own stored moments, caught in snapshots and thrown into a drawer, are obvious and pallid fakes. Fascination sidesteps good sense, and we wonder: How was this lovely bunkum done...
Protestantism may not be quite as pallid as all that. One denomination in the study, the Southern Baptist Convention, is expanding, perhaps because it chooses ministers who ardently profess their biblical beliefs. Besides that, the book's conclusions are based on statistical averages, which tend to obscure the variety of vital congregations within all denominations. The survey, moreover, was taken in the mid-1970s and has only now managed to get into print. Meanwhile, according to a Gallup survey for Christianity Today magazine, younger ministers are becoming increasingly firm-and firmly religious-in their beliefs...
Some of Luongo's choices are more debatable. For the best appetizers, he picks the oysters Rockefeller served by Antoine's in New Orleans; they have sometimes proved a pallid parody of the original, which was reputedly invented at that watering hole. His candidate for best volcano, Kilauea on Hawaii Island, is surely a country mouse compared with Oregon's Mount St. Helens. Experts might challenge Luongo's contention that the best botanical garden is in St. Louis (New York City's in The Bronx is at least bigger); that the Beast at King...
Perhaps it's this pallid, celibate quality that makes My Bodyguard so appealing. Without redeeming prurient interest, the film draws attention to its charming heroes and revels in a puerile macho sensibility. Lacking Breaking Away's overwhelming charm, or Fame's exuberance, it's still...
Osborn Elliott became editor of Newsweek in 1961 and set about transforming what was then a pallid copy of TIME into a feisty, prosperous competitor. "Oz" Elliott, now 55 and dean of Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, tells how he did it and how much fun he had along the way. He rose above his humble beginnings (St. Paul's, Harvard, old money and a family friend, Builder-Bureaucrat Robert Moses, who got him a first job on the New York Journal of Commerce) to become business editor at Newsweek in 1955. He and Colleague...